Salt and pepper box.



H. A. SEDGWIUK.

SALT AND PEPPER BOX.

APPLICATION nun MAY 12, 1908.

Patented Apr. 13, 1909.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY as a unit.

UNITED sTA'rns ll I'INRIIITTA A. Sl'lDGWlCK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y

T OFFICE.

SALT AND PEPPER BOX.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IIENRIETTA A. Seno- WICK, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the city and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Im rovement in Salt and Pepper Boxes; and do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, repared with a view to obtaining Letters l atent of the United States therefor.

The invention is of a nature to encourage the formation and enjoyment of picnic parties;it may serve usefully with large well provisioned and ex ensive parties ex loring rough country witi equi ments to e out several days or even wee s, or for exceedingly unpretentious arties to be out only a few hours. Its wholie function is to carry a supply of salt and pepper and have it always rear I lave discovered that a neat and very convenient box of maple or other bright wood may be made with little labor by hand or by'machinery and supplied with the two principal seasonings, salt and pepper, just sufficiently intimate without. mixing ready for instant use in any desired pro )ortions.

The following is what I consh er the best means of carrying out the invention.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is the upper part as shown, it carries the grosser grains,-the salt. Fig. 2 shows it loaded. Fig. 4 shows the lower part used to can the pepper. Fig. 5 shows it loaded. Flg. 6 shows it capped. All these and the next two Figs. 7 and 8 show central longitudinal sections. Fig. salt box in the act of being applied upon its mate the lower part or the pepper box. Fig. 8 shows them after they have been applied together and adhering 1n the obvious manner, the two boxes are ready to be handled The united parts can be rolled or variously treated as convenience or fancy may suggest. Fig. 9 is a erspective view of the com ound box in its filed condition.

Similar etters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures where they appear.

In turning or otherwise operating to produce the arts, I prefer to make the exterior surface of one longer than the other so as to remove all doubt as to which end has certain contents. As shown the long one is devoted to the holding of pepper. When the two Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed Kay 12,

Fig. 3 shows it capped.

7 shows the top part or the Patented April 13, 1909. 1908. Serial N0. 432,461.

boxes are se )arated they will stand of e ual height but t iey are then well distinguis ed in that the pep er-box C is of full dlameter at the top (see big. 7) while the other is contracted at the to (see Fig. 3 inverted).

A set of smal smooth] -cutting drills not shown produce the sprin ling holes I) in the part B,.the short part which carries the salt,and a nearly similar set but a greater number of smaller drills not shown produce the sprinkling holes 0 in the other part,the longer part which carries the pepper.

1 provide nicely fitting covers A and D to match tightly over the apertures through which the parts B and O are filled. After these arts are filled with the desired mate rial, w rich in this case is salt and e per, the covers are placed in position an t e whole is ready for use, or the arts B and C may be matched together an the whole packed awa for use at some future time.

The liberal supply afl'orded in the small portions of wood remaining unused in many arge manufacturing industries and the fact that the parts can be shaped automatically by accurate and swift machinery brings the cost of these several parts and of the assembled seasoning holders down to a very low figure;an d the strength and the capacity to endure severe usage makes them serviceable under conditions in which ordinary equipments could not serve at all.

I attach importance to the plain cylindrical form or in otherwords the uniform external diameter for the reason among others that it allows the two boxes when desired to be held together in one hand and shaken simultaneously.

Modifications may be made without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of the invention.

I can use the device for other purposes than food and seasoning therefor.

I attach importance to the economy of my device and to the abandon with which the compound boxes may be distributed without any care to gather them again.

The small s )aces between the perforated ends BI; and c rapidly choke with the pepper from one or the salt from the other whichever chances to be uppermost when the device is filled. The mixing of the two condiments is not objectionable in the very small extent to which it is here carried, and each of the articles however dry and fine is retained against absolute loss.

I claim as m inventioni I v 1. A salt an epper holder in fou se arable parts, soc eted together in line, ill: two interior-parts constitutin tubes partly separated at their joinin en by two perforated artitions forme one on each part, the who e adapted to serve as two boxes or one at will.

2. A salt and pepper holder composed of wood in four separa le parts, socketed together in line, the two interior parts constituting tubes provided at their oining ends with perforated closures, and the remaining parts forming covers tightly closing the outer ends respectively.

3. salt and pepper holder composed of wood m separable parts, of uniform external diameter, the main arts B and C joined tightly together in lme with their contents separated when not in active. use by perforated partitions lying close together, in combination with a cover making a tight closing at each end, all adapted to serve as herein s ecified.

Signe at New York, N. Y., this 5th day of 

